Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design

From:

Richard Stallman

Subject:

Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design

Date:

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:30:59 -0400

Are you arguing that isearch non-exiting commands shouldn't exist, or
that they shouldn't be able to take a prefix argument?
Neither. I am saying that the non-printing characters that are exceptions
to the rule should be as few as possible.
(The rule is that they exit Isearch and then execute normally.)
I think the existing exceptions are already so numerous
as to constitute a nuisance.
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